In other words, it appears Windows 2000 Pro, and XP recognize partition type of 0x17 as a valid Windows partition. So perhaps a change is needed in grub, that changes the partition id to something else?
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Reshat Sabiq wrote: > The example grub.conf containts hide/unhide entries, however, when booting > into Windows 2000, i can still see Windows XP partition as drive F:. > > The box has 2 scsi disks, and the 2nd one is now hd0, that's where XP is > installed. Windows 2000 is on > hd1. > > Has this feature been tested when using multiple disks, or does it perhaps > work only when hiding a partition on the same disk? I assume hiding is > accomplished by changing partition type to something Windows doesn't > recognize. However, after booting into 2000, and then into Linux, i see > that XP partition's type is 17, Hidden HPFS/NTFS. > > I know that documentation says this should work, but trying to make > sure if this is known to work across disks. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
